Week 5 Stats

Week 5 is done:

Weight: 179 (-1; -6)
BF%: 20.2% (0%; -1.6%)
Waist: 99 (-2; -5)
Hips: 100 (0; -2)
Chest: 102 (-1; -9)
Thigh: 58 (-2; -3)
Calf: 36 (0; +1)
Arm: 33 (0; -1)

Weight is down, but less than the goal of 2 pounds per week. Not sure if this is adaptation to the lower food intake or what, but no matter, I nudge down the calories again. This nudge puts me at 1700/1350 per day.

There's still some movement in the Waist and Chest and Thigh areas, which should be a solid indicator of loss of fat. I don't know, though. Measuring in cm gives quicker measurement results than in inches, but the process is still slow.

Everything has moved down or stayed the same, which is encouraging to see. Means things are at least moving in the proper direction.

M suggested this weekend that I'm too concerned with the timeline of change rather than change itself. She seems to feel that pushing for changes at an expected pace misplaces the emphasis and focus.

I can agree with her on the one hand. I could do away with the timeline of changes and stick to a goal. Consistency with the diet and so forth would eventually bring me to be the same weight as my goal, though it would probably take me much longer to reach there.

Personally, putting goals to a deadline helps me stay on track. It keeps my attention and focus better than setting a "whenever" goal does. I have lots of "whenever" goals, and they don't keep progress nearly as well as the diet has today.

As usual, the scale showed a good drop today over yesterday. I feel like I should move the official weigh-in to Mondays - but then the scale changes would probably move to Tuesdays. Anyway, scale said I was 177 today, but it was close to 176. It'd be nice to hit 175 by the end of week 6, would be marginally ahead of schedule for the week, but right on time for the process as a whole.

M keeps bringing up the idea of me weighing very low numbers. Like 120 pounds and such. I know she's teasing and being silly when she's quoting something that low, but when she's quoting something closer to 155 that it's a bit more like pushing.

I know she just wants to see the roundness come off, and with the way the body fat has been steadfastly sticking about, it has got to be a little frustrating.

As for me, I could see me getting down maybe as far as 160, but I doubt I'd be aesthetic at that weight. The feeling from me is that aesthetics comes after I lose some of the weight and then put on some muscle weight in replacement. The body fat needs to come down.

That leads me into another bit. M and I had a chat about my motivations. Why am I trying to lose weight. To lose fat, is my answer. She didn't seem to think that was a good motivation if that was my only motivator. For me, it is. I know that once I lose fat, I'll be able to switch and start gaining muscle. But, until the fat is under control, the rest has to wait.

I think she was looking for something a bit more defined, or maybe something she could categorize better. I don't have any other answer, though.